A508 crash in Harborough on 18 February 2006 at 21:25 involving a Volkswagen Bora
A Volkswagen Bora, a car and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A508 in Harborough at 21:25 on Saturday 18 February 2006. The 37-year-old male driver of the car, a 37-year-old female passenger in the car and a 10-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2006
- Saturday, 21:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Bora and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47627, longitude -0.91441, in the LE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Market Harborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Market Harborough-Logan, Harborough, LE16 9BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006330601190
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 508
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A508 in Harborough, 27 January 2014
16 m awayRef 2014331400180
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5363 in Harborough, 30 May 1990
28 m awayRef 1990339004011
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A508 in Harborough, 13 February 2014
30 m awayRef 2014331405015
Slight
Car crash on the B5363 in Harborough, 8 July 1979
42 m awayRef 19793379S0548
Slight
Car crash on the B5363 in Harborough, 1 November 1986
45 m awayRef 19863386S1078
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5363 in Harborough, 18 May 1985
64 m awayRef 19853385S0379
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2006330601190 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harborough road accident statistics for 2006.